回顾 | 在石无限看到石头里的生活

2021年5月18-21日,为期四天的第二十一届中国厦门国际石材展览会中,石无限设计展作为石材产品设计主题展也如约而至。

今年是石无限设计展的第三年。从第一第二年的牛刀小试,到今年近2000㎡的独立展区,已经形成了比较完整的体系和规模。今年有幸邀请到小杰为策展人,小康为视觉形象顾问,向荣为艺术顾问,以“日常里的石头”为题,用艺术、生活、物什,建筑、沙龙与茶歇等内容,探索石头的无限可能,通过设计,以艺术的形式走进生活,通过科技让无穷的想象飞落日常。

石头里的生活

石头里的生活是石无限设计展的产品设计版块之一,展出15个品牌展位 ,联合21位不同风格的设计师,呈现出30余种石材90余件石材设计产品。从家具到花器茶器再到雕塑作品,用不同品类的石材产品设计,齐聚设计行业与石材行业酷爱“石”的设计师,探索石材设计的不同可能性。

英良 | 五号大师班
设计师:曾建龙 / 落地制作:英良五号大师班

「竹韵东方」系列,取竹之静美,以竹形为意将传统文化自然融入设计以浑然天成的设计语言,将石材解构再塑匠心具现,浓郁的绿色带来春天生命的悸动为家打造徜徉竹林深处的美意,灵动雅致,余韵悠长。

又 见
艺术家:黄海兰蓝 / 设计师:叶建海 & 唐华珠

我迎着光,
看见一抹蓝,
一点点长出翅膀,
细数每一根羽毛。
最后,
无比庄严地点燃自己,
重新展开,
在无边无际的时空里
可曾又见过?
又见空间从艺术到空间的规划、设计、陈列于一体的集成方案。让每一个人走进艺术,遇见自己,体验生活的趣味性。

锦盛石业
设计师:反正

锦盛石业•泉州东继顺锦盛石业有限公司成立于1994年,是一家集矿山开采、石材生产销售、豪宅精装、进出口代理为一体的多元化工程石材专业供料集团。20多年来,锦盛石业始终坚守“质量铸就品质,诚信赢得市场”的理念,不断探索创新,引领石材行业发展。锦盛石业的口号是要品质,找锦盛!宗旨是真诚相待、平等合作、互惠互利、共同发展!

Franchi Umberto Marmi
设计师:Biselli Eugenio

弗兰奇公司成立于1971年,位于意大利卡拉拉。经过50年的发展,弗兰奇集团现在已经成为意大利石材的领军企业,全球最大的鱼肚白/雪花白矿主和供货商。2020年10月,弗兰奇公司成功在米兰上市。成为意大利第一家上市的石材公司。我们期待着弗兰奇更加光辉灿烂的未来。

无匠堂
设计师:张文山

我们致力于“禅蕴”空间的研究,用艺术阐释生活,用文化熏陶生活。旗下茶道,香道,景道的器具及艺术品等四大体系的产品,倡导着高雅、简朴、自然高尚的生活格调。

MEDMAR x 东升 x 奎龙
设计师:李丽君

来自土耳其的Medmar联合他们在中国的伙伴东升石业,奎龙石业,合力共同打造以米黄新世纪,诺娃,蓝冰灰为主材料的石材海洋世界主题馆。

岩石营造
设计师: 吴尚泽&丁辰瑀&NUH

岩石营造,作为石材美学传播者,致力于发掘石材的千万种可能。我们基于对石材的理解认知,建立了一套独有的运算法则——石之运算。石 + 材料的组合碰撞、石 - 回归自然肌理、石 x 打破领域界限、石 ÷ 解构造物过程。

无 墨
设计师:王松文

厦门无墨有画实业有限公司 ,位于福建省厦门市翔安区,有多年的石制品设计开发和生产加工经验,团队一直以高品质、好口碑服务于市场,于2017年推出国画石原创品牌“无墨”。 “无墨”遵循“法自然,慎取舍”,通过设计巧思、精致工艺呈现国画石材料的山水清气和天地大观。产品聚焦在香器、茶道、花事、画艺,文房等领域。

不二美学
设计师:陈耿龙&陈杰&小杰

不二斋品牌创立于2012年,在继承传统雕刻技法的基础上寻求突破传统雕刻理念,设计上倡导坚持当代中式文化以内敛平和格调和优雅低调的方式将石刻和人的内心世界进行完美的结合,赋予石刻全新的思维和灵魂,将其传承生活而升华于生活之上,表达出东方哲学的审美。

环球石材
设计师:周澄海

环球石材集团创立于1986年,是我国大陆地区建成时间较早、规模最大的综合型建筑装饰石材企业之一。集团占地120万平方米,员工近2000名,下设东莞、福建、天津三大天然石加工基地和东莞常平一大人造石生产基地,业务涵盖:矿山开采、石材加工、装饰设计、工程施工及产业园区等多领域布局的完善产业链结构,成为国内石材行业的领军企业。30多年来,环球石材先后承接了3000多项国内外著名工程的石材供应。2019年,华润水泥入股环球石材,开启环球石材跨越式发展的时代新篇章。

MAXIS
设计师:吴澄科

美克斯(MAXIS)作为新石代(同属中环亚石业)旗下奢石马赛克新品牌,是为了更好地创造实现石材无限图形的搭配美感,给予设计师们更多的选择价值,并通过数理几何排列来表达生活美学。

厦门金石源石业有限公司
设计师:侯兴善

金石源石业是一家集矿山、工厂、工程、及进出口贸易为一体的资源型企。经过多年发展,公司陆续与国内外许多知名企业建立合作关系,并成为多个知名建筑项目的材料供应商。我们团队从矿山选料到生产加工,包装,运输乃至施工过程的每个细节着手,致力于精进卓越的生产品质,力求展现石材自然天成,匠心独运之美。灵活多元的生产加工方式,构建出独特完善的石材“艺术品”供应链。

观爱设计
设计师:张华达

厦门观爱创意设计有限公司位于美丽的鹭岛——厦门,致力于专业的园林绿化工程、规划设计,以及其它艺术创意设计包括艺术雕刻品等。工厂位于惠安县崇武镇——美丽的海滨城镇,长期为海内外客户提供优质的产品。

王荣海雕刻艺术工作室
设计师:王荣海

王荣海在艺术上是有野心的。看着他的作品,你会忽然想起英国诗人萨松的名句:“心有猛虎,细嗅玫瑰”,一个看似粗糙的汉子,却往往有出人意表的细腻构思,令人意远的诗意境界。一块采来的石头,他总要先端详个三五天,把它视为远道而来的朋友,拍拍肩背,较量较量拳脚……待到摸透这石头的脾性,哪里该去哪里该留,哪里要大刀阔斧,哪里要精雕细琢,一切都像和石头商量好了似的,不增不减,恰到好处。在荣海的作品里有诗,有远方。请慢慢走,欣赏啊!

伍克拉
设计师:小杰

让源自于亿万年前大自然恩赐的天然石材以更低的成本走进千家万户是伍克拉的愿景!七年之恒心,伍克拉人秉承智匠精神,突破极限,终让天然石材薄、轻、韧、可弧可曲,不易碎裂。得于量化呈现,深得国际市场高度认可,并广泛应用于家俱、装饰领域。科技创新石界:薄石材!厚天下!

Stone Infinite Product Design Show - Life In Stones

Stone Infinite Product Design Show, one of the featured events at Xiamen Stone Fair, kicked off its 3rd edition in Hall A1 on May 18, 2021.

With the theme of “Stones in Daily Life”, it was structured in 6 sections: art, life, artifacts, constructions, salon and tea break to explore the infinite possibilities of stone. We were honored to invite Xiaojie as the chief curator, LAU Siu-Hong, Freeman as the visual identity design consultant and Wang Xiangrong as the art consultant to jointly curate the product design show.

Stones in Daily Life

Design comes from life, but it makes life more beautiful. “Life in Stones” is a space for brands or studios to express their thoughts on design with stones. The blue section in the below floor plan is structured for "Life in Stones". In 15 exhibition spaces, 21 designers presented over 90 products made of over 30 kinds of stone materials, from furniture, flower vase, tea set to sculpture and ornamental artwork.

YING LIANG | 5TH MASTER CLASS
DESIGNER : GARY ZENG / PRODUCED BY: YINGLIANG 5TH MASTER CLASS

Bamboo has always been admired for its integrity and poetic shape. The designer took inspiration from bamboo and blend culture and nature into the design artwork. With humble design language and craftsmanship, they deconstruct and reform the stone to present: a drop of green that brings the flavour of Spring, a taste of tranquility in bamboo grove at home, a journey of the everlasting eastern poetry.

SEE&SAW
ARTIST: HUANG HAILAN / DESIGNERS: YE JIANHAI & TANG HUAZHU

“In the face of the light
Seeing a touch of blue
Growing wings by little
Slightly to count every feather
In the end
Ignite myself with solemn
Re-Open
In the eternity of time and space
Have you ever seen it again?”
Through the integrated solutions from art to space planning, design and display, the space allows everyone to feel art, meet themselves and experience the interest of life.

JINSHENG STONE
DESIGNER : RETURN

Founded in 1994, Quanzhou Dongjishun Jinsheng Stone Co., Ltd. is a comprehensive engineering stone supplier professional in stone mining, stone processing and sales, plate wholesale, luxury real estate decoration and import-export agency.

In this exhibition space, Jinsheng took “home design among stones” as the theme, creating a warm and vital atmosphere with gray and white stone materials as well as flexible partitions and green plants as the ornament. They hope to lead the viewers to think about natural materials and the prospect of urban forest.

FRANCHI UMBERTO MARMI
DESIGNER: BISELLI EUGENIO

Franchi Umberto Marmi is founded in 1971, Carrara, Italy. Through 50 years development, Franchi Group has become the biggest Calacatta/ Statuario quarry owner and supplier in Italy and in the world. In October, 2020, Franchi Umberto Marmi successfully listed on Milan Stock Exchange, as the first Italian stone company.

This time, Franchi brought two design products, the sofa “Ritagli” and the lamp “Lumier”. The base of the sofa is a whole marble structure. The sofa set contains two basic forms of different sizes and can be customized in shape and finishes. Besides, the sofa is extremely light and can be installed in outdoor environments.

The lamp is inspired by the baroque world and fairy tales. It is available in two shapes and sizes which are complementary because of empty and full. Made of unusual materials such as marble and crystal, the lamp can be installed everywhere thanks to its lightness.

WU JIANG TANG
ZDESIGNER: HANG WENSHAN

WU JIANG TANG is devoted to the study of “zen” space, expounding life with art and edifying life with culture. The four major products under the brand, utensils of tea ceremony, incense art, scene and art products, which are advocating elegant, simple, natural and noble life style.

MEDMAR x DONGSHENG x KUILONG
DESIGNER: LI LIJUN

Medmar from Turkey teamed up with Dongsheng and Kuilong in China to create a theme of “Stone Ocean” with Xinshiji, Nuowa, Lanbinhui as the main materials.

The design is inspired by the ocean that nurtures everything. The table behind is made of layers of stone. The detail processing incorporates the combination of whales and mountains, symbolizing “sea and land” blending together and complementing each other. The core of the design advocates a community where everything is life.

STONESMITH
DESIGNERS: WU SHANGZE & DING CHENGYU & NUH

STONESMITH, as a conveyor of stone aesthetics, is dedicated to exploring infinite possibility of stone. They established a unique operation method - Stone Operation based on the understanding of stone.

+ Stone Plus: Material combination and contrast

- Stone Minus: Return to natural texture

× Stone Multiple: Breaking boundaries of field

÷ Stone Divide: Deconstructing process of production

THE INKLESS
DESIGNER: WANG SONGWEN

As a professional team serving the market with excellent quality and great public praise, Xiamen Inkless Painting Industrial Co., LTD has rich experience in the design, development, manufacture and process of stone products. In 2017, they launched “The Inkless”, the original brand of Chinese painting stones. “The Inkless” follows the notion of “abiding by the rules of nature, taking acceptance and rejection seriously”. Through smart design and exquisite craft, “The Inkless” elegantly shows the beauty of the mountains and water as well as the grandeur of sky and earth, which are all originated from the Chinese painting stones. Their products mainly focus on the areas of incense utensils, tea ceremony, blooming season, painting arts and the study.

BU ER MEI XUE
DESIGNERS: CHEN GENGLONG & CHEN JIE & XIAO JIE

The brand of Bu Er Zhai was founded in 2012. The brand seeks to break through the traditional carving concept on the basis of inheriting the traditional carving techniques, and advocates adhering to the contemporary Chinese culture in design.

Perfect combination of stone carving and human inner world, endow stone carving with new thinking and soul, sublimate it from life and express the aesthetic of oriental philosophy.

UMGG
DESIGNER: ZHOU CHENGHAI

Universal Marble & Granite Group Ltd. (UMGG) was founded in 1986. It is one of the largest comprehensive architectural and decorative stone enterprises with approximately 2,000 employees in Mainland China. UMGG's site is spread over a 1.2 million sq. mt. area which are three natural stone manufacturers in Dongguan, Fujian and Tianjin, and one large high-end quartz compound stone company in Changping, Dongguan. Its business covers: mining, stone processing, decoration design, engineering construction and stone industral park. For more than 30 years, UMGG has been supplied stone material for more than 3,000 well-known projects worldwide. In 2019, China Resources Cement Holdings Limited took a stake in UMGG. It's a new chapter in the era of leaping development of UMGG.

MAXIS
DESIGNER: RICHARD

As a new brand of luxury stone mosaic under “Next Stone”, MAXIS aims to better create and realize the collocation beauty of infinite graphics by stone, give designers more choices, and express the aesthetics of life through mathematical and geometric arrangement.

The name of the work that MAXIS presented is “Heart of the Triangle” in which three internal angles intersect to form a heart, which is soft and hard, and provides forward power for life. Triangle is the most stable structure in the world, and the one that best represents "Family" is also a triangle. This design work hopes to represent family and life and be full of joy.

KINGS-WING STONE (XIAMEN) CO., LTD
DESIGNER: HOU XINGSHAN

Kings-Wing Stone (Xiamen) Co., LTD, was established in 2008, starting with investment in quarries, including quarries mining, blocks selling, stone processing and wholesale, bidding for projects, and the import and export business.

With the advanced management experience and equipment, Kings-Wing Stone focuses on the global market and regularly communicates with the leading companies at home and abroad. With years of experiment and the continuously enriched products, the sales market of Kings-Wing Stone has reached all over the world and supplied products for world-known architectures.

GUANAI CREATIVE DESIGN
DESIGNER: ZHANG HUADA

Xiamen Guanai Creative Design Co., Ltd. is located in Xiamen, dedicated to professional landscaping projects, planning and design, and other artistic creative designs including artistic sculptures. Its factory is located in Chongwu Town, Hui'an County - as a beautiful seaside town, providing high-quality products for customers at home and abroad.

WANG RONGHAI SCULPTURE ART STUDIO
DESIGNER: WANG RONGHAI

Wang Ronghai is ambitious in art. When you look at his works, you will suddenly think of the famous sentence of British poet Sassoon: “a tiger in the heart, sniff the rose”. A seemingly rough man often has unexpected and delicate ideas, which makes people far away from the poetic realm. He always looks at a picked stone for three or five days and regards it as a friend coming from afar. He pats his shoulders and shoulders and fights with his fists and feet. When he gets to know the temperament of the stone, where to go and where to stay, where to be bold and where to be meticulous, everything is just like a discussion with the stone, no increase or decrease, just right. In Rong Hai's works, there are poems and distant places.

WUKELA x OPAL
DESIGNER: XIAO JIE

It is WUKELA's vision to let natural stone enter thousands of households. Enabling design innovation, products upgrading, and product value-added is the goal and mission of WUKELA. Thinness: It takes WUKELA five years of research to make traditional thick stone to 5mm and even break through the limit of 0.5mm. Wukela ultra-thin marble can be curved, and it is flexible and not easily broken. Wukela has always been adhering to the wisdom of craftsmanship during the lase seven years, breaking through the limits, and finally making natural stone thin, light, tough, curved, flexible and not easily broken. Based on high-quality and mass production, Wukela ultra thin stone is highly recognized by the international market and is widely used in the furniture and decoration fields. Science and technology bring brand-new innovations to stone industry.